George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.